God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. ~Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien
Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? ~Pierre Troubetzkoy
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. ~Ellen DeGeneres
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. ~Joseph Wood Krutch
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. ~Mark Twain, What Is Man, 1906
Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he’s normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I’ll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing. —Maynard
“He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man…” -Isaiah 66:3
The wild, cruel animal is not behind the bars of a cage. He is in front of it. -Axel Munthe
